With everything else going on regarding Sal Piamonte & co. and their music, we are excited to share that we have just been notified that Sal has been selected as one of the world finalists in the world renowned and prestigious MIDEM Music Festival in Cannes, France. The idea is that we have to get people voting everyday until December 7th (at the link provided in this email) in order to try and finish in the Top 10. Although even being selected is an honour, if we can place in Top 10 voting, what happens next is that an international panel of judges will choose 3 artists to showcase in Cannes in the spring.

We’re hoping we can count on all of your support to see if we can at least make the Top 10!

HEY PEEPS!!! Hope your Monday is off to a great start! We just wanted to thank all of you for taking the time to check out our new video for the “Take Me Home” single over the weekend and encourage you all to call/email/tweet/facebook/txt/telepathically communicate your request to have both the song and vid played on local radio/tv/internet/etc media outlets everywhere!

We are pumped to announce that the good peeps of Rock101Radio, who have been amazing in their support of the new “Take Me Home” single and the “Lives In Devil City” record so far, have made the “Take Me Home” video their “Video of the Week” this week on their website!!! Yaaaaa!!!!!

Ottawa’s Sal Piamonte has crafted a rare CD that manages to showcase both songwriting and performance right out of the starting gate with all cylinders firing. We’re not just talking about the skills but the presentation as well. This is a slick, major label looking and *sounding* tour de force. Aside from a badass Digi-Pack movie poster-looking sleeve and booklet, Piamonte has managed to assemble a million dollar record on an indie budget. And what a record it is; One part balls-in-your-face misogynist swagger and bravado like tried and true ‘Drop D’ tuned bands a la Nickelback, Theory of A Deadman and Finger Eleven; another part Kid Rock good-time party anthems; and all out exceptional Hedley-styled pop vocals, hooky rock riffs, and speaker busting production.

You gotta hear it to experience it. In another era the opening quartet of tracks off the top of the album of Take Me Home, Devil Woman and Get Up, Get Up and the balladry of Just A Little Bit would have meant a whole A-side of charting singles. Piamonte has loosely woven the tracks into a narrative of dark and dangerous exploits in the metaphorical Devil City. Imagine comic icon Frank Miller’s ‘Sin City’ as a Broadway musical. The theme over all is the literal and figurative fornication of Piamonte; giving it (Nasty Girl, Devil Woman, Do Watcha Say and Go All Night) and receiving it (Get Up, Get Up, Shining Star and High Road). But the melodies are woven in such a way that the songs aren’t bleak but actually uptempo and hopeful. Prime example is Tonight which is a rock dance party with a message and might be the best prospect for shaking up commercial radio where Auto-Tune and vacuous performers abound. Alas, Piamonte’s built himself a hard act to follow. This is a solid debut that’s going to be very difficult to top.

Wow!!!!….we are pumped to announce that our new single “Take Me Home,” has now charted to position #12 on Rock 101 Radio’s Top 20!!!! Please check it out at: http://www.rock101radio.com/WEEKLY_TOP_20.html

YEESSSSSSSSS!!!!! We did it!!!…and we did it THANKS TO ALL OF OUR AMAZING FANS WHO VOTED LIKE CRAZY FOR US ON “THE NEW 99.1 FM’S” (WWW.CKXSFM.COM) NEW ARTIST ONLINE VOTING POLL!!!!

WE CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN SAL’S MUSIC, PROJECT, AND LAUNCH OF THE KILLER NEW “LIVES IN DEVIL CITY” RECORD….GETTING INITIAL EXPOSURE IS CRUCIAL AND IT’S AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIKE THIS THAT HELP TO TAKE THINGS TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL!!!!

THANKS TO YOU…OUR AMAZING FANS….EVERYTHING JUST GOT TURNED UP A NOTCH!!!!!!!……AND THEN SOME!!!!

THANKS TO THE GANG AT CKXSFM FOR THE FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORT, TO ALL OF OUR FANS, FRIENDS, AND FAMILY, AND TO LINDA AND RAY AT MUSIC SOLUTIONS INC. FOR THEIR FANTASTIC WORK WITH THE NEW “TAKE ME HOME” RADIO SINGLE SO FAR!!!!

KEEP IT COMIN’ PEEPS AND LET’S GROW THIS THING!!!!

PS!!!!—->NEW VIDEO FOR THE “TAKE ME HOME” RADIO SINGLE COMING VERRRRRRY SOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to take a quick second to thank you for your continued support on The New 99.1 FM’s (www.ckxsfm.com) online New Artist voting Poll for keeping Sal at the top and we hope that you will continue to do so until November 7th so that Sal can win The Artist Of The Month!!!

Also…in addition to the stations we have been happy to announce that are supporting the new “Take Me Home” radio single, we’d like to thank a new supporter, CHKS K106.3 FM in Sarnia, ON!!!

Please keep calling, emailing, tweeting, facebooking, text msg’ing, and spreading news of the new single via word of mouth to everyone you can and don’t be shy to let your local radio stations know that you wanna hear Sal Piamonte’s “Take Me Home!!!”

Your support is crucial and we luvvvvv you all for it!!!! Please keep it comin!!